When a hotel advertises Internet Access in a room, you would expect to find an ethernet cable or port in the room. Right? I stayed at a hotel in Houston several days back at the Candlewood Suites. I chose that hotel precisely because they offered free Internet Access (as … Continue reading “Define: Internet Access”
My dad was an airline pilot for a now defunct airline Braniff International. When I was younger I had really wanted to fly planes – my dad had a great story of how, when he was 15, he lied about his age to enroll in … Continue reading “Road Warrior Weaponry”
I’ve been working a lot lately on my laptop and I use the built-in eraser head mouse pointer; I just cannot stand the touchpad. After too many days my right-index finger will begin to ache — as it’s doing now — from overuse. So I … Continue reading “My addition to our technology vernacular”
A couple of people have asked me what my post-Microsoft plan is and whether or not I plan to stay actively involved in the .NET developer community — resounding YES! A dream of mine has always been to start my own consulting/software company, I love … Continue reading “Announcing »telligentsystems”
For quite some time I’ve wanted the new Microsoft Bluetooth Keyboard/Mouse combo – before I left Microsoft I burned through my Microsoft store credits as quickly as possible and of course had to buy this! So far it’s pretty great – My only complaint is that … Continue reading “Microsoft Bluetooth Keyboard/Mouse”
First a bit of news… Today is my last day at Microsoft. I’m leaving the the mothership and headed out on a new venture. It’s been a dream for nearly 6 years, it’s been in planning for 18mo, and it starts next week! I’ll post more details on what … Continue reading “TechEd Slides and other news”
I’m leaving for TechEd this morning, it should be a really fun week! ScottGu is giving our two introductory ASP.NET Whidbey talks and I’m giving a talk on www.asp.net, BlackBelt ASP.NET Programming, and advanced server control topics. The BlackBelt talk is going to have some great content. … Continue reading “TechEd”
A little bit of a soapbox today… On the ASP.NET Roadshow one of the common demos shows the creation of a graphic using an HttpHandler. Internally within the HttpHandler the System.Drawing APIs are used to paint onto a bitmap stored in memory and then … Continue reading “ASP.NET Control Vendor Market”
Tonight we kick-off round 2 of the ASP.NET Roadshow in Atlanta. Join us for 3+ hours of ASP.NET fun with 1 hour dedicated to ASP.NET “Whidbey”. If you’re in Ft. Worth I’ll be presenting at the Ft. Worth, TX User’s Group meeting tomorrow night. Be sure and … Continue reading “On the road(show) again”
A couple months back I mentioned publishing our provider specification we’re using for Whidbey. It’s now available on MSDN in the resurrected Nothin’ but ASP.NET column. This first article outlines the pattern, and in the following column we’ll walk through using this pattern for ASP.NET 1.1. … Continue reading “Provider Design Pattern”
